Back In Time Alternatives for Windows

Duplicati

Duplicati is a backup client that securely stores encrypted, incremental, compressed backups on local storage, cloud storage services and remote file servers. The Duplicati project was inspired by Duplicity and had similar functionality until 2008. In that year the storage model was redesigned completely and the program was rebuilt from scratch. This manual describes Duplicati 2, the version based on the new storage model.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

Acronis True Image

Acronis True Image provides data protection including, backup, archive, access and recovery for Microsoft, macOS, iOS and Android operating systems. As disk imaging software, True Image can restore the previously captured image to another disk, replicating the structure and contents to the new disk, also allowing disk cloning and partition resizing, even if the new disk is of a different capacity. The Acronis True Image Cloud version allows cloud users to also back up their mobile devices.

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CrashPlan

Automatic Data Loss Protection for Your Small Business $10 USD per month per computer. Never worry about losing business-critical data again. CrashPlan® for Small Business makes protecting files on your devices, including your file server and external hard drives, fast and easy. LIGHTWEIGHT, CONTINUOUS PROTECTION Runs automatically in the background. Doesn’t slow you down. UNLIMITED STORAGE No file size restrictions or additional charge for space.

Freemium $ $ $ Windows Web

Veeam Agents

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows and Veeam Agent for Linux work with Veeam Availability Suite to deliver Availability for ALL workloads — virtual, physical and cloud — from a single management console, extending Veeam’s leadership position from being the best for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V to #1 Availability for any app, any data on any cloud.

Freemium $ $ $ Windows Linux

Duplicacy

Duplicacy is a new generation cloud-backup tool supporting 5 major cloud-storage providers (Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure, Dropbox, and Backblaze), as well as local disks and SFTP servers (such as Mac/Linux computers or NAS boxes).

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Restic

Easy: Doing backups should be a frictionless process, otherwise you are tempted to skip it. Restic should be easy to configure and use, so that in the unlikely event of a data loss you can just restore it. Likewise, restoring data should not be complicated. Fast: Backing up your data with restic should only be limited by your network or hard disk bandwidth so that you can backup your files every day. Nobody does backups if it takes too much time.

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Areca Backup

Areca Backup is a file backup software which can be run on Windows or Linux. It creates backup copies (which can be encrypted and compressed) of your files and stores them on external drives, USB keys, FTP servers, supporting incremental, differential and full backups. It also allows you to browse your backups and navigate among different version of the files contained in your archives.

• Discontinued Last Update: 2015-08-26. See https://sourceforge.net/projects/areca/

Free Open Source Windows Linux

luckyBackup

LuckyBackup is an application that backs-up and/or synchronizes any directories with the power of rsync. Its main features are: backup, safety, synchronization, exclude/only include options, allows custom rsync options, remote connections, restore and dry-run operations, scheduling, profiles and command line mode.

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rdiff-backup

rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network. The target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse diffs are stored in a special subdirectory of that target directory, so you can still recover files lost some time ago. The idea is to combine the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup.

• Discontinued The product seems to be no longer updated. Last version, 1.2.8, released in March 2009, can be still downloaded from the official website.

Free Open Source Windows Linux

Back4Sure

Back4Sure is a feature-rich backup solution for typical backup use. No VSS Volume Shadow Copy function for open files. The program can make a backup to hard-disk, USB drive or network and can also be compressed using high or low compression settings to a ZIP or 7-zip file of various compression levels, as well as encrypted for security.

Free Windows

ToolWiz Time Machine

Toolwiz Time Machine (Toolwiz multi-point restoration) is a powerful and easy-to-use undelete freeware, protecting your PC from data loss and improving its security. It allows users to create no more than 24 snapshots of your system partition on a regular basis to backup your system. If your current system gets damaged or crushed or you are not just satisfied with it, you can use Toolwiz Time Machine to rollback your system to any snapshot you want.

• Discontinued The program is no longer updated. Last version, 1.0.1.16, released in December 2013, can be still downloaded from the official website.

Free Windows

Windows File History

File History when enabled protects files from within the libraries, desktop, favorites, and contacts folders and creates copies of the files. in any event of a system refresh, reset or crash the files that were backed up through File History can easily be restored. File History's restore interface has been made easy and simple to find and restore any version of files that were lost or damaged.

Commercial Windows

lsyncd

Lsyncd watches a local directory trees event monitor interface (inotify or fsevents). It aggregates and combines events for a few seconds and then spawns one (or more) process(es) to synchronize the changes. By default this is rsync. Lsyncd is thus a light-weight live mirror solution that is comparatively easy to install not requiring new filesystems or blockdevices and does not hamper local filesystem performance.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux

Zinstall Backup

Full PC backup, extremely fast and allows to restore to a completely different Windows and computer. For example, restore programs, settings and files from a backup of Windows 7 32bit Dell to a Windows 10 64bit HP (without wiping it)

Commercial Windows

MKSBackup

MKSBackup is a free front-end for common backup tools like MS Windows ntbackup, and it successor wbadmin, Un*x tools like tar, but also popular ghettoVCB to backup Virtual Machine on VMware ESX(i) host. MKSBackup is developed in Python and is available for Microsoft Windows, Linux and other Un*x systems. MKSBackup is driven by a Command line interface and jobs are defined in an INI file.

• Discontinued The product seems to be no longer updated. Last version, 1.0.3, released in March 2013, can be still downloaded from the official website.

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KLS Backup

KLS Backup - Powerful backup and synchronization program with FTP, WebDAV and cloud support (Windows Azure, Amazon S3, Eucalyptus Walrus) KLS Backup is a powerful backup, synchronization and disk cleaner program that allows you to back up or synchronize your data to local and network drives, cloud storage, CD/DVD media, WebDAV or FTP server. The cleanup feature is a complete solution to backup and clean private data and free up disk space.

Commercial Windows

Uranium Backup

Uranium Backup is an Italian backup program & program-launcher for Windows environments in 12 languages. Like Cobian Backup it can backup not only complete folders but also a list of selectable single files, and it is nearly portable, see the review.

Freemium Windows

iGoUSB

iGoUSB Backup is a portable plug'n use software solution that provides a simple, efficient and uncluttered way to save a copy of your computer files, documents, pictures, music and video files for the non-technical person. It is straight forward and visually intuitive for the novice and yet very powerful for the expert user. Multiple versions of same documents are stored and easily retrieved with just a few clicks.

• Discontinued It looks like this is no longer being worked on. You can get it from http://download.cnet.com/iGoUSB/3000-2242_4-75806006.html but all the links to their site, from here and at CNET are broken. The site 404's, but has been archived by the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20120625140728/http://www.igousb.com/

Commercial Mac Windows

Altarsoft Safe Backup

Backup and restore files and folders easily. Set compression level and restore mode. Split large backup file into several parts.

Free Windows

Acebackup

AceBackup is a free backup software to create completely secure backups of your data. Store your data on any local storage device, on CD, DVD or on your remote FTP server!

Commercial Windows

Nero BackItUp

Nero BackItUp protects your files and memories on your PC or laptop. Have your filed automatically backed up on up to 3 locations, such as USB hard disks. All you need to do is click one button to set up your backup. Features - Fully automate your backups Relax safe in the knowledge that your files are safe: You can back up your files daily, weekly, monthly – or whenever you want! Just set a time and date.

Freemium $ $ $ Windows Android

Data Deposit Box

Data Deposit Box is an established cloud backup solutions company that provides small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) with the premium security and protection services utilized by large enterprises. The Company's patented backup technology, known for its Exabyte scalability, advanced data reduction capabilities and ease-of-use, has won prestigious industry awards and has been featured in many key industry publications.

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